NEW DELHI: Senior Indian official who has also served as an interlocutor during the UPA regime, has backed the UN role in the resolution of the six decades old Kashmir dispute.
M M Ansari Monday said that UN Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) would remain relevant till UN resolutions on Kashmir were in the book of records.
Ansari, who along with Radha Kumar and Dilip Padgonkar, was appointed a go-between for Kashmir at the height of street campaigns against Indian rule in Kashmir around 2010, has said that UNMOGIP has only been asked by New Delhi to vacate government accommodation while the truth was that their office would still exist in India, which is a proof that merely shifting UN Observers office from one place to another would have no implications on Kashmir issue.
The relevance of UN Military Observers in India should be debated. They have been asked after six decades to vacate government accommodation. They have not been treated as persona no grata or they have not been directed to leave the country. What message India wants to convey and to whom, Ansari said.
If the government claims that the mission has long “outlived its relevance” then it should have made it clear on what grounds it was allowing UN Military Observers to get settled at some other place.
He further said that the order of the government to vacate the office premises of UNMOGIP was equal to running away from the reality. Both India and Pakistan are the signatories of the 18 resolution passed in UN over Kashmir issue.
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